Decide who you want in your team. You might decide to create one team for your group e.g. a company or university or group of friends OR divide into multiple teams e.g. an organisations’ employees grouped into country teams.

Tip: being part of a bigger team is typically more exciting than a small one.

Plan the activities that your team will engage with. Some teams will focus on the activities set up by Walk2COP27; others are setting up their own programme of activities e.g. local meetings, marches to complement Walk2COP27 and build engagement. If you are going to raise funds, then consider whether you raise for the Walk2COP27 charities (the Jane Goodall Institute), or want some of the fundraising to go to a local cause.

Tip: make the most of the events Walk2COP27 is setting up e.g. the townhalls will enhance impact and reduce the effort you need to put in. Focus any activities you are organising on increasing distance travelled by your team, attending townhall and Clubhouse sessions, and fundraising.

Setting targets can be one way of building team cohesion. This might be a target for distance travelled (remember, Walk2COP27 plants trees for distance travelled), a target for attending the Walk2COP27 townhalls and Clubhouse initiatives, or a fundraising target.

Tip: set ambitious targets, they can be flexed later if necessary.

Create a simple plan covering when and how you communicate with the people you want in your team to ensure they understand what they need to do and register. You may want to communicate more broadly through social media.

Tip: use the Walk2COP27 website and material to ensure team communications is aligned in terms of timing and activities.

We want all participants to log distance travelled on atlasGO. This will convert into planting trees and is a key measure of engagement. atlasGO can track your distance, or you can import from other apps e.g. Strava, or you can add manually. Distance travelled can be seen at individual, team and Walk2COP27 levels and progress will be announced at each Townhall.

Tip: include all the distance you travel, this might include your daily walk as well as something you have started specifically because of Wak2COP27.

The Townhall sessions are designed to give us all a better understanding of how climate impacts different countries with different climates and infrastructure, and what solutions are being deployed. These can found on the “The Journey” tab on the website. Clubhouse sessions are for Teams to highlight climate action they are engaged in to the Walk2COP27 community, and can be found on the “Clubhouse” tab.

Tip: don’t assume team members know how to engage with the Townhalls and Clubhouse. Details on the relevant tabs on the Walk2COP27 website – help them out.

Keep communicating with your team both on atlasGO, and in any other way. Check in on those not participating, high five those doing well, provide encouragement.

Tip: remind your team members that their participation counts, keep climate change front and centre.

A key outcome is creating connections. This could be within teams, but also between teams who might be in different parts of the world, or very different types of organisation. Participating fully in atlasGO, the Townhalls and Clubhouse provides opportunities to forge these connections, benefit team members, and create impact.

Tip: consider inviting the entire Walk2COP27 community to events you are organising e.g. you might be running a half marathon, and encourage us all to run with you, or doing a rubbish pick up.

Help shape the proclamation we will deliver to COP27. In the final week of our journey to COP, we will gather input from our community and synthesise into a message for those attending COP.

Create a short video to amplify the experience of the journey and its key messages. Walk2COP27 will create a standard 3 min video which will incorporate c. 1 minute of your content.

Keep you team together, make more noise on climate change, drive more climate action!